Month: March 2018
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LandSense Innovation Challenge
The LandSense Team is thrilled to announce the first LandSense Innovation Challenge, which targets individuals, web-entrepreneurs, start-ups and SMEs coming from all participating H2020 countries, to present innovative IT solutions in addressing one of the three LandSense domains: Urban Landscape Dynamics, Agricultural Land Use, and Forest & Habitat Monitoring (learn more here). The focus of this…
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Openrouteservice for Disaster Management: Supporting Humanitarian Logistics with Hourly Updates
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) provides immediate support for disaster or humanitarian responses by coordinating and activating a global network of mappers that contribute up-to-date geodata to the OSM database. For example, after the Nepal earthquake 2015 volunteers added up to 800 km to the OSM street network per hour! This information could successfully support…
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Dr. Wei Huang was visiting the Institute of Remote Sensing & Geographical Information System at Peking University, Beijing, China
Our colleague Wei Huang was invited to give a talk at the Institute of Remote Sensing & Geographical Information System, Peking University, Beijing, China, on Mach 5, 2018. He presented his recent research on human activity pattern study at city scale based on geospatial data analytics. The researchers in the institute at Peking University also…
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Open Positions: Geographic 3D Point Cloud Analysis (Full-time PhD / Postdoc Position)
Heidelberg University invites applications for one full-time PhD student and one Senior Researcher (Postdoc) for “Geographic 3D Point Cloud Analysis” in the 3D Geospatial Data Processing Group (Prof. B. Höfle) at the Department of Geography. The 3DGeo group is also affiliated with two research centers – the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) and the…
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Stellenausschreibung für Studentische Hilfskraft für Online-Umfragen / Webentwicklung
Das Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE) verfügt über zahlreiche inhaltlichen und methodischen Kernkompetenzen im Bereich „Umwelt“ an der Universität Heidelberg. Diese sollen über einen Online-Fragebogen systematisch erfasst und anschließend auf einer interaktiven Webseite visualisiert und zugänglich gemacht werden. Für die technische Umsetzung der Online-Umfrage zur Datenerfassung und für die graphische und dynamische Darstellung der…
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Exploring Geography with the Geographers of Tomorrow- Kinderuni Heidelberg at GIScience
For the fourth time, GIScience/HeiGIT supported the Kinderuni of Heidelberg University. Last Saturday, 03.03.2018, interested children between 9-12 were invited to join members of the group and learn about the various kinds of work of geographers, and current projects at GIScience. After providing an overview of geography and different kinds of geodata, the young participants…
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Colloquium: New observations of urban climates – remote sensing and crowd sourcing, Dr. B. Bechtel
We cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk The speaker is Dr. Benjamin Bechtel from the Institute of Geography / Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability, Universität Hamburg www.clisap.de cen.uni-hamburg.de When: Thursday 08.03.2018, 14ct Where: INF 348, room015 (Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University) Abstract: New observations of urban climates –…
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Reminder Deadline 30.03.2018: 2nd CFP – VGI-ALIVE Workshop at AGILE, Lund.
VGI-ALIVE – AnaLysis, Integration, Vision, Engagement Tuesday 12th June 2018, Lund, Sweden, Workshop at AGILE 2018 Introduction to the VGI-ALIVE Workshop The steady rise of data volume shared on already established and new Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and social media platforms calls for advanced analysis methods of user contribution patterns, leads to continued challenges in data fusion, and…
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GESIS Top Publication 2017
One of our recent publications (Bluemke, Resch, Lechner, Westerholt and Kolb 2017) was elected the “top publication 2017” for the research field of “research data management” at the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS). The paper discusses methodological challenges common to both survey research and GIScience, and is expected to serve as the starting…